Past Event! Note: this event has already taken place.
Dan Smith, “Architecture, Violence and Hope: A Visitor’s Guide to Mega City One”
October 2, 2012 at 4:00 AM
| Location: | 1811 Dunton Tower |
The Carleton Hyperlab and The Department of English present a special talk by Dr. Dan Smith
Dan Smith is Senior Lecturer in Fine Art Theory at Chelsea College of Art and Design. His book Traces of Modernity is an archaeology of the shadow of the Great Exhibition of 1851, through an exploration of the ruins of the Crystal Palace in Sydenham and the dinosaurs that remain, the Albert Memorial in Kensington Gardens, Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum and The Time Machine by H.G. Wells. He is currently working on A World of Uncertain Seasons, a book on contemporary art and utopia to be published as part of the Ralahine Utopian Studies Series, as well as Agamben Unframed for I.B. Tauris. He has been a regular contributor to Art Monthly magazine, and is now blogging for the Huffington Post in the UK. His drawings can be found at danthatdraws@blogspot.com,
